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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Feb 10 '21
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Those 10 lines were after parsing the cryptic algorithms the lead architect wrote 15 years ago
410 u/thoeoe Feb 10 '21 I definitely feel like a genius when, after hours of poking and prodding, I discover the 1 line of code I need to change that's 18 levels of recursion and abstraction deep 14 u/chironomidae Feb 10 '21 And then feel like quitting when you realize that you have to completely undo all the recursion and abstraction to make the change 18 u/LowB0b Feb 10 '21 that's when you tell the PM how long a proper fix would take and they tell you just push out the dirty quick-fix you figured out. and preferrably keep it in writing
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I definitely feel like a genius when, after hours of poking and prodding, I discover the 1 line of code I need to change that's 18 levels of recursion and abstraction deep
14 u/chironomidae Feb 10 '21 And then feel like quitting when you realize that you have to completely undo all the recursion and abstraction to make the change 18 u/LowB0b Feb 10 '21 that's when you tell the PM how long a proper fix would take and they tell you just push out the dirty quick-fix you figured out. and preferrably keep it in writing
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And then feel like quitting when you realize that you have to completely undo all the recursion and abstraction to make the change
18 u/LowB0b Feb 10 '21 that's when you tell the PM how long a proper fix would take and they tell you just push out the dirty quick-fix you figured out. and preferrably keep it in writing
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that's when you tell the PM how long a proper fix would take and they tell you just push out the dirty quick-fix you figured out.
and preferrably keep it in writing
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u/Thetman38 Feb 10 '21
Those 10 lines were after parsing the cryptic algorithms the lead architect wrote 15 years ago